Valentinus

I agree with your comments regarding devices and intelligence. I was only adding the observation that as tools, they do work that was only done by "in...

There is something about a story where we want something to be true. Or what is happening. And maybe we didn't know that was a desire before the telli...

I want to add to my previous reply that I have grown uncomfortable with my description that the "ontological" turns into the "epistemological" in rega...

Regarding the Epstein article, the use of "algorithm" stands out for me. When we make rules to help calculation, that is not the same as understanding...

The emphasis placed upon isolating a "moral agent" from other causes to prove alternative possibilities is not the only possible approach. So, for ins...

Yes, I understand that is the theory. And it fits in with the Nominalist rejection of universals you ascribe to. But as identity theory refines itself...

The correspondence between mental states and physical conditions ties them together in such a way that their causes are not to be separated into diffe...

Don't be sorry. Life is short. I am trying to represent a point of view I don't hear in yours. That is all. Maybe I am wrong. But I would only know an...

I can. But I don't feel like an equal partner in this conversation. None of my challenges are worth taking up but yours are given to you by whatever y...

What if you were in a situation where the propositions ran out? What if what happens calls you out because whatever you prepared for or not is shown i...

You asking for a better map. When you run into the mountains, a topographical map is helpful. Maybe I won't just walk due north. There is a divide tha...

If a map is important, and not just a poster on the wall, you want to travel to another place. You have to leave one place to go to another. That does...

On the contrary. The need for separation gives birth to the book.

That map of the world is held by you. I didn't say you came up with all of it. On the other hand, no map handed to you is free of your design. The poi...

You can hold the map in your hands. You can put a compass on it so that you point yourself in alignment with with the arrows on the map. It is a set o...

And if there is a map, there is a territory. I am interested in how techniques become mixed up with descriptions of what is happening. In my work, a m...

The use of "where" in relation to "refer to" puzzles me. The ordinary use is to connect one term or idea to another. Something like: When I speak of h...

Joking aside, the helplessness is not just about what awful things happened to you and me but a reflection upon a ground. Getting an angle upon it, as...

Understood.

I don't think the important stuff is about saving religion or condemning it. We are here now. There are different ways to look at it. We are the impor...

No. Whatever complaints you may have for the atheist point of view, it does not help the discussion to subsume those points of views as another creed....

I appreciate your remarks upon remarks 36 to 39 as they look at how "corresponding" is assumed so often while not looking at how it is done.

I dunno. Maybe your words could say it, if you said the right words. Feels like the poet is mailing it in.

Leaving to the side the question of how to regulate the site, your observation was what first struck me about the number of posts of that sort. Maybe ...

Yes, nobody sees you as you are as well as your kids. One could write a history of the world based upon strategies to limit the results of the percept...

Hah. Children are the most dangerous thing in your home.

Yes, that view is especially reflected in how the tyrannical soul is seen by itself and in the context of rule in the later books. Your point is well ...

Glaucon takes up part of Thrasymachus' argument after the latter was not able to defend himself against the questions Socrates posed. Glaucon observes...

I have been checking out the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy a lot lately to understand themes and theories I am not familiar with. I have also be...

It helps me to go through the arguments with Thrasymachus. He is the one proposing that hiding injustice in the body of what the "state" calls justice...

I read that passage to say that we make our decisions upon information we either regard or do not regard as important. How will we make that judgement...

Would it be fair to say that keeping the conversation within the bounds of the text makes the argument strictly theological in contradistinction to a ...

This difference is why theories of perception and understanding ever appeared. However much it can or cannot be said that things ultimately are one ki...

My reasons are mostly what you gave. I am certainly running into some of my own fallibility. I already regret saying some things the way I did. My wor...

That is an excellent point. They both take the viewpoint of the "city" as a whole. They both see different "arts" and their relationship with each oth...

My two cents: Although many other matters are addressed in the Republic, I think its purpose never strays from answering Glaucon when he asks: But the...

Yes, that is what I am trying to argue. But I had not thought of panpsychism as something that could further muddy the waters. What a tangled web we w...

I am having trouble separating your claims from your questions. You state that, "motivation behind altruistic action is personal gain" and also ask "d...

It is standing in for rain which is a noun.

The sentence is ostensive, pointing at the rain. As a matter of grammar that would separate agent and action, the rain is raining.

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I was responding to the discussion of whether the Cartesian duality of mind/body was the same or not as the Aristotelian distinction between form and ...

Nothing the Russians made possible is separate from interested parties in the U.S.A.. The same goes for leverage exerted by China. What Trump conceals...

Would it be too simple to observe that we check our grammar by trying out phrases and knowing they are wrong or right without checking on the basis of...

You are projecting a purpose where it may not be. Consider changing the focus from one of motivation influenced by a desire to achieve a particular re...

There is no doubt there are a lot of disputes about what Aristotle is exactly saying but the writer is being a poor reader by not putting the question...

In regards to De Anima, that parsing would be incorrect as the "mind" is on both sides of the intellectual perception. That is why understanding is "t...

TheHedoMinimalist has a good list. Thinking about it as a continuation of the Stoicism thread, it occurs to me that suicide controls an outcome but th...

What "psychiatry says" needs to be heard together with other forms of psychology, including clinicians who are not doctors in the way psychiatrists ar...

It seems to me that consciousness plays different roles in different dreams. Many dreams are like experiencing a play where the desire to be immersed ...